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Lifeguard Gorou saves a squid girl from drowning. Wait a second…
“Oh my god I totally forgot I can breathe underwater!”
「仲間じゃなイカ？／祝わなイカ？／遊ばなイカ？」 (Nakama Janai ka? / Iwanai ka? / Asobanai ka?)
“Aren’t You an Ally? / Won’t You Celebrate? / Won’t You Play?”
So apparently squid girls are so dumb, they forget that they can breathe underwater and start panicking like they’re going to drown. It’s probably not fair to draw conclusions on the whole squid people race based on Ika Musume, but it’s really all I have to go on so that’s what I’m going to do! Don’t get me wrong though. I love watching every minute of her silly antics on the surface, much like this week when she crossed paths with life guard and childhood friend of Eiko, Arashiyama Gorou (Nakamura Yuuichi). It seems to begin the same way with everyone who meets Ika. They’re surprised by her tentacle hair for a brief moment, then quickly realize that she’s just some harmless squid girl who can’t invade anything. The misunderstanding that developed between those two as “protectors of the sea” led to a short-lived alliance, but some good laughs as well when Ika went to get back at Gorou for stopping her declaration to subjugate humans. More than anything, that incident only ended up reiterating that Ika easily gets caught up in the flow of things, even when it’s just a bit of praise for saving a young kid. To her credit, she did give Gorou a mouthful before storming off, which would’ve never taken off the ground if it was Chizuru she was up against.
In regards to the next skit where Ika decided on a whim that her birthday was today so that everyone would throw her a party, I don’t think I’ll ever get annoyed by her adorable whining and clueless faces in light of how the human world works. Her fear that everyone was secretly scheming to make food out of her was a nice touch, whereas Eiko’s decision to give her two candles based on how stupid she is had me laughing helplessly. In response to that, Ika filling her cake with a ton of candles and thinking she’s hot stuff, only to wind up being unable to blow them out, paved way to another great squid ink moment. It’s completely slapstick, but I just love how it comes out in chunks as part of a sneezing-like reflex. Squid ink cake anyone? Following up on Ika’s stupidity, the sparkling fireworks took the cake in this birthday mini episode. As if almost on cue, Eiko always has the right tsukkomi to butt in, namely on how she won’t be able to invade anything if she keeps owning herself.
As for the pinnacle of getting swept up in other people’s pace, the introduction of Eiko and Chizuru’s friend, Nagatsuki Sanae (Itou Kanae), would have to be it. I recall reading these parts of the manga on my skim through it a month ago, but boy is it ridiculously more hilarious animated. Starting with Sanae’s dog Alex gnawing on Ika’s tentacle and scaring the crap out of her, the follow-up remark by Eiko showing more concern for Alex than Ika led to a completely priceless reaction in the latter. That also set the stage for Ika asking for some equal treatment, and Chizuru taking full advantage of the opportunity for her own enjoyment. During all that, the thoughts going through Ika’s mind reiterated just how slow she is in figuring that out. As for Sanae herself, I mentioned in the season preview that she has a “thing” for Ika, which the rest of this episode showed exactly how obsessed she is with our blue-haired heroine. Good times all around.
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The first indication that Gorou has a thing for Chizuru, as well as Ika having done absolutely nothing to protect the sea.
“Let our powers combine! Captain Planet!”
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Gorou’s not cool with Ika telling everyone to grovel at her feet, but Ika seems to love trying to drown him in return.
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One part whining, one part clueless. All cuteness all the time.
“Who wants some ika karage!?” “Me me!”
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Ika goes from being scared shitless to overly proud about an age she made up for herself.
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I think everyone saw where this was going. Take cover!
YUMMY!
I probably laughed way more than I should have with this one, but self-ownage holds a special place in my heart.
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If I wanted to be nice about Ika’s fear of fireworks, I’d say she was just clueless about the world. It’s still a lot more fun calling her dumb like Eiko does though.
She’s reacting, but nobody’s caring.
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This was probably my favorite moment of the entire episode. Eiko’s sarcastic remarks are right along the lines of the ones I would make.
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It didn’t click with Ika right away that being treated like a dog is even worse than working at Lemon, but boy was it fun to watch.
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Eiko gives Ika the quick once over and questions Sanae if she’s really okay with “that”.
To subjugate or be subjugated. I don’t think Ika has much of a choice with Sanae.
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This is probably what should have been happening (as far as Eiko was concerned).
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Whereas this is reality. Looking good Ika!
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Awesome episode! This has to be the funniest series around this season. That or SMWM.. Also FIRST? 🙂
..de-geso
Screens 1-3, Lifeguard Rescue Fail.
Protectors of the Sea Unite!!!
Possibly my favorite show this season 😀
😀
OMG this looks like the most hilarious thing ever! Especially the first parts. 😀
Now can we introduce Ika to the WWF and Greenpeace? I have nothing against green movement, but I’d love to see Ika’s take on humans that want to protect the seas like she is (failing to)…
I also enjoy how she randomly wears a swimsuit when it seemed like her normal outfit worked fine underwater.
Gorou is way more buff than I remember, but it at least makes sense for a lifeguard to be strong.
This is filling the void left by Mitsudomoe….if only there were a good replacement for SYD.
kawaii cute~.~
https://randomc.net/image/Shinryaku%20Ika%20Musume/Shinryaku%20Ika%20Musume%20-%2002%20-%20Large%20Snapshot%2003.jpg
Higurashi de geso~!
Lightsaber ~de geso
Haha, yeah that was a funny one as well
hey by the way what is the Japanese pronunciation of Jellyfish. i seen on picture of Ika musume and Jellyfish Girl. Ika really looks good on white swimsuit. really didnt like the other costume on her. if only the squid head(except for the hair) was removed will she be able to adopte other costume.
“Kurage”, as in Kuragehime (Jellyfish Princess) this season.
thx
I never thought I could be so entertained by watching a clueless squid girl. I love it! At the beginning after Ika was being saved from drowning, I thought Gorou was gonna say something about her being a jellyfish.
The funniest parts this episode was Ika forgetting she can breathe water, then thinking she was going to be eaten and where she sat, shook hands and laid down. I think the doggie part takes the cake this episode especially with Ika thinking that being treated equally was worse than normal :p
LOL@the impossible drowning scenario finally clicking with Ika. She is FREAKING adorable but oh man, is she silly. I almost hurt myself when I thought she would fail at blowing her candles after that much preparation and puked ink on her own cake (a simple fail became one with a major capital F). Love my little Ika musume!
Two words for this episode that’ll make anyone watch it: Costume Rape.
Also,I think each episode title is a question so it ends up with “-ka” which sounds like Ika.
As I mentioned last post, they all end is “-i ka” in reference to “squid”. That portion of the episode titles is even written in katakana to distinguish it as such.
w0w thats new “costume rape”
Now that I think of it, this is the first anime that I’ve seen in a while that has no ecchi.
https://randomc.net/image/Shinryaku%20Ika%20Musume/Shinryaku%20Ika%20Musume%20-%2002%20-%20Snapshot%2003.jpg
Reminds me of Higurashi…especially Rika.
Captain planet! XD
Ika is so adorable -de geso. I’m gonna follow this anime all the way through -de geso.
I wonder how Ika forgot she’s a squid and perfectly fine underwater -de geso. Actually, can squids even survive out of water like Ika and how long do they live -de geso?
I’ve fallen in love with Shinryaku! Ika Musume (=^_^=)